Why can't we talk about the Black role in flash mobs?
There has been a lot of ink spilled about the lack of Blacks in technology. Just 49 of Twitter's 3000 employees are Black. Only 1.5% of Facebook employees are Black. But one area where young Blacks have been overwhelmingly overrepresented in technology is in flash mobs. Flash mobs are people who organize through Facebook or Twitter or other social media for the purposes of meeting at a place and performing an activity. Sometimes the activity is harmless, like performing a dance routine, but often it involved illegality and violence, such as attacking people and looting stores. AT had a classic example only yesterday where a Walmart got ransacked.
And although the article didn't mention it, the video showed that most of the participants were Black. It's hardly an isolated incident. Flash mobs frequently gather to rob stores or beat up white people. ...
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